3815 Georgia Avenue, NW
From Seta Oasis via email:
“Opening
Early Fall 2024
Mission
Seta Oasis is born of a dream to honor and celebrate our rich Caribbean heritage through food and music. (more…)
Thanks to Heather for sending our friend from the National Mall.
Friends of the White Whale Society is brought to you by the team behind Hawks*** around Town. You can email your sightings to [email protected]
Thanks to Brian for sending: “apparently new condo coming on the corner and the old house will face Norton.” (more…)
The reality
You’ve probably never read your building’s property management contract all the way through. Most board members haven’t either. If you did, you’d find a carefully defined scope of work — vendors coordinated, maintenance dispatched, assessments collected, reports generated.
What you wouldn’t find: anything about fiduciary duties. Reserve funding strategy. Compliance tracking. Case documentation. Institutional memory. The legal obligations that make your board personally accountable to unit owners.
That’s not an oversight in the contract. It’s the contract. Property management was never designed to cover governance. And yet most boards — paying $10,000 to $18,000 a year for the service — assume it does.
Operations and governance are different jobs. One has a contract. The other has a fiduciary duty.
What your building is paying — and what it’s getting.
What the contract covers. What it doesn’t.
The markup problem most boards don’t know about.
Beyond the management fee, most property management companies mark up vendor invoices — the plumber, the landscaper, the elevator contractor — by 10 to 15 percent before passing the bill to the association. It’s legal. It’s common. And boards have almost no visibility into it. (more…)
Not pictured, pup, seemingly happy, in the back seat… (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
6th and T NW. We get a lot of car break ins especially on the weekends when out of towners come to park and are targeted. The silver car already had the passenger side window smashed out. Silver car sign says: ‘broken window nothing here’ and ‘please do not break window nothing here’ (more…)
Join Mindful Movement DC this Memorial Day Weekend for a 3 night yoga retreat to rebalance strength & softness in our lives! During this weekend in the woods, we will create a sacred space to nourish and embrace our whole selves through yoga, meditation, journaling, time in nature, and community building.
Event led by:
3906 14th Street, NW
The placard for Rue Cafe says:
“New Class C Restaurant with an indoor Seating Capacity of 26, an outdoor Summer Garden with 40 seats and a capacity of 80, and a Total Occupancy Load of 106. Alcohol Carry-out and Delivery Endorsement.”
You can see Rue Cafe’s current menus here.
photo by Seanie Blue Moon
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From an email:
“The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), the place management organization that oversees 140 blocks of the downtown area, today announced the return of Kids World, a free two-day event designed for young children, teens, and families. On July 27 and July 28, Franklin Park and “I Street” will be completely transformed, hosting 30 immersive activations that promote literacy, performing arts, health and fitness, creativity, science, nature, entrepreneurship and more. (more…)
Thanks to Tim for sending this awesome daihatsu hijet.
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